Margaret Bullens, Founder and President
Margaret is a recognized expert, author and educator in sex offender management policies and practices. She founded SAFENOWPROJECT because she felt criminal justice improvements alone would never significantly reduce sexual violence—and that individuals could be empowered to take a proactive lead at improving safety for themselves and others.

Margaret’s diverse professional experience has focused her on various aspects of sexual violence prevention or offender management, including developing and implementing a recognized adult sex offender probation program in Texas, serving full time as the “Sex Offender Management Specialist” for national organizations: American Probation and Parole Association, the Center for Sex Offender Management and the Council of State Governments. She has experience and credentials as an officer of the court, Certified Forensic Law Enforcement Polygraph Examiner, and a consultant on various tools used in the monitoring of sex offender behaviors—including sex crime computer investigation, polygraph, electronic monitoring and the pleythsmograph.

Margaret is a sought after expert consultant on sex offender management issues. She has served as a leading consultant on several federal grants (OJP and NIJ) focused on sex offender management, domestic violence and prevention. This includes her role as Executive Director of San Diego’s Sex Offender Management Council (SOMC, www.sdsomc.com) and polygraph expert on a newly federally funded domestic violence grant. She is instrumental in the development of collaborations responsible for new policies and practices, serving as the media contact (including Primetime Live, A&E, and FOX News) on sensitive issues, and ultimately leading these jurisdictions to be recognized as models of “best practice”.

Her work in public policy has resulted in focused legislation on both the state and federal level. She continues to provide the only nationally accredited sex offender supervision training for probation and parole officers hosted by the American Probation and Parole Association. Margaret has authored articles in several professional journals and provides reviews on new publications. Her new book, Polygraph Primer, will be published by Wood ‘n Barnes Publishing.

In addition to her role as Founder and President of the SAFENOWPROJECT, Margaret Bullens is a forensic partner and member of the board of Directors of Forensic Technologies, Inc. (www.bbfa.us).

Kenneth Carabello, Chairman
Ken is the Director of Regional Operations for Liberty Healthcare Corporation.  Before his current position, he was the Executive Director of Liberty’s California Conditional Release Program, which provides intensive community supervision and treatment of Sexually Violent Predators conditionally released throughout the state for the California State Department of Mental Health.  He is the current President of the Forensic Mental Health Association of California, which for the past 30 years has provided a forum for the discussion and advancement of issues important to forensic mental health, corrections, and law enforcement professionals.  Mr. Carabello holds a Master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California, a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Brigham Young University and he is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.  For the past 14 years he has held clinical, supervisory and administrative positions in programs working with offenders released to the community in state and federal systems.  His forensic mental health experience includes directing a 67-bed federal halfway house, Assistant Director of a large CONREP outpatient clinic, Casework Supervisor, and Therapist. 

Ken is an experienced educator and a sought after public speaker, lecturing in professional and public forums and guest lectures on forensic mental health policy at the University of Southern California.  He is a certified instructor on Management of Assaultive Behavior.  In 2005, Mr. Carabello led the creation of an SVP Steering Committee to establish a national organization for states with sex offender civil commitment laws, which successfully resulted in the establishment of the national Sex Offender Civil Commitment Programs Network in 2006.  Mr. Carabello has extensive volunteer experience in youth and religious organizations.  A former bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he has also had extensive experience in the Boy Scouts of America.  Mr. Carabello, his wife, and their two children live in Santa Monica, CA.

Tom Ford , Director
As the founder and general manager for National Purchasing Alliance, Tom has more than 25 years of executive level experience in higher education and collegiate athletics. He served four NCAA Division I institutions; University of the Pacific as Business Manager of McGeorge School of Law and Executive Director of Pacific Athletic Foundation, at the University of Houston, Tom moved from Associate Athletic Director to Director of Athletics during the glory days of Phi Slamma Jama basketball. While at the University of Arizona, Tom moved to the academic side, as Manager of Continuing Education in Phoenix, Arizona. Tom was the Director of Athletics and Campus Recreation, University of California, Irvine before spending several years as the Associate Executive Director of the National Association of Basketball (NABC).

Tom spent time at Raycom Sports, a television syndication firm as Director of Consulting Services and Executive Search at the same time maintaining and developing relationships with several NCAA Division I athletic conferences. His duties included scheduling football and basketball regional and national telecasts on ABC, ESPN and NBC. Tom also authored “Athletic Fundraising Under the Team Concept” for the NCAA Manual.

Linda Lewis, Secretary
Linda is the Director of Strategic Planning for LimitedBrands, a Fortune 500 company based in Columbus, Ohio. She is a talented executive with breadth of retail and consumer products experience in merchandise planning, finance, and systems implementation. Linda also has a proven track record of organizing multi-function resources to provide solutions and execute large projects and is able to serve as catalyst for profitable and orderly change. Adept at establishing rapport and credibility with diverse groups ranging from CEO’s to a manufacturing plant workforce, Linda adds to the SAFENOWPROJECT Board of Directors exceptional talent development, administrative, analytical, and communications skills.

Bill Majeski, National Advisory Council Liaison
Bill is President of Majeski Associates Inc. an Investigative firm in operation since 1988. He is a veteran of the New York City Police Department, where he had a distinguished career for 21 years as a Detective. His law enforcement expertise encompasses a vast array of criminal and internal investigations, from homicides through to political corruption. That experience has been refined over the past 18 years, serving the needs of corporate, business, legal and private clients. During his tenure as an NYPD Detective he served as a Panel Member of the Civilian Complaint Board, as a Delegate for the Detectives Endowment Association and served as a Committee member to evaluate current create new Departmental Investigative procedures. Since 1974, he has been a practicing polygraph examiner for both law enforcement and the private sector. He is the former President of the New York State Polygraph Association. He also served on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Police Polygraphists.

Bill is a former Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Criminal Justice Program of Long Island University, and for ten years directed academic programs as the Chief Instructor for the New York Institute of Polygraph Science. Mr. Majeski lectures on interviewing techniques, investigative procedures, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), polygraph methodology and a host of other topics to corporate, private and government sectors. Bill has written many articles for professional journals and published in Parade Magazine. He has had the distinction of being featured in many publications including: Time Magazine, the Sunday New York Times and the New York Daily News. He is the author of " The Lie Detection Book"(a book on body language), which was published by Ballantine Publications. Additionally he is a co-compiler of a textbook titled " Corporate Investigations", published by Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company. Over the past three years, Bill has made more than one hundred and fifty appearances on FOX NEWS, MSNBC and Court TV; offerring his expertise, analysis, evaluation and assessment on current high profile investigations.

Phyllis Shess, Secretary
Phyllis is Assistant Chief of the Sex Crimes & Stalking Division for the County of San Diego District Attorney's Office. A veteran trial attorney, she has tried more than a hundred criminal cases including homicides, child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. An expert in sex offender management, she has been instrumental in developing best practices for law enforcement and municipalities in creating safer communities. She is a member of the San Diego County Sex Offender Management Council, and is part of the SAFE (Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement) Task Force. Phyllis has been at the forefront of Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) management in the State of California and sits on the SVP Committee for the California District Attorney's Association. In recent years, she has lectured extensively on the issue of child safety through community education, action and prevention.

Dave Weisz, Vice Chairman
David S. Weisz currently heads up Motorola’s Law Enforcement and Homeland Security Alliance efforts. In this role, he directs Motorola’s alliances with customer trade associations and helps establish and strengthen relationship with senior customer officials such as Chiefs of Police, State Police Colonels and other government officials. He represents Motorola during various award presentations and has recently shared the stage with U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and Under Secretary for the Preparedness Directorate at the U. S. Department of Homeland Security George Foresman. In addition he has taken his consumer marketing experience and applied it to major projects such as Motorola’s new partnerships to help build the National Law Enforcement Museum and the Chicago Police Memorial.

Along with his efforts to support key areas in law enforcement such as increasing funding and spectrum needs, he is sharing his corporate perspective with various law enforcement agencies as they look at their own marketing needs.

Weisz began his career at Motorola in 1979 in the Public Relations department for the Communications Sector. In 1984, Weisz was promoted to head the department with responsibility for directing worldwide public relations efforts. He later spent three years in a strategic sales management role in the Sector’s Government Markets Division before developing the corporation’s first dedicated sports marketing function in 1991. Weisz was a pioneer in Motorola taking a discipline not fully understood by senior management and bringing it to a level to support key marketing initiatives. Weisz has been involved in all aspects of sports and event marketing as well as most marketing communications functions. Programs developed and implemented include Motorola’s sponsorship of the NFL, Olympic Games, PGA, Indy Car, and America’s Cup, as well as many local events. He has spoken at numerous marketing conferences and recently moderated a session on municipal marketing- an area that is rapidly increasing as cities look at ways to generate new revenue and promote their own brand.